Tag Archives: Kevin Greenlaw

La Favorite, UCL Opera, Theatre Royal Stratford East, March 2016

Posted on 17 March 2016

Donizetti’s La Favorite, once far more widely performed than it is today, is a triumph for UCOpera, who have brought this unfairly neglected work to stage in its original French version. The story is straightforward enough: a young novice monk, Fernand is rejected from the monastery after falling in love with a lady named Léonor, …

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Acante et Céphise, University College Opera, UCL, Bloomsbury Theatre, March 2012

Posted on 20 March 2012

Each year University College Opera produces a little-performed opera from the past, and this year it was by the pre-eminent composer of eighteenth century French opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau. This particular opera was originally commissioned for the royal household to celebrate the birth of an heir to the heir to the throne, incongruously tacked on to the …

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